Last Of The Mohicans

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS Screenplay by Michael Mann and Christopher Crowe Adaption by John L. Balderston and Paul Perez and Daniel Moore Based on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper Also based on the 1936 screenplay by Philip Dunne FADE IN: The screen is a microcosm of leaf, crystal drops of precipitation, a stone, emerald green moss. It's a landscape in miniature. We HEAR the forest. Some distant birds. Their sound seems to reverberate as if in a cavern. A piece of sunlight refracts within the drops of water, paints a patch of moss yellow. The whisper of wind is joined by another sound that mixes with it. A distant rustling. It gets closer and louder. It's shallow breathing. It gets ominous. We're interlopers on the floor of the forest and something is coming. SUDDENLY: A MOCCASINED FOOT rockets through the frame scaring us and... EXTREMELY CLOSE: PART OF AN INDIAN FACE running hard. His head shaved bald except for a scalp-lock. Tattoos. He's twenty-five. He seems tall and muscled. Heavy, even breathing. We'll learn later this man is UNCAS, the last of the Mohicans. PROFILE: UNCAS' ARMS flash as he runs. One carries a flintlock musket. Sweat on the man's skin. A calico shirt is gathered at the waist with a wampum belt of small white beads over a breechcloth. He wears leggings to protect his legs. A long-handled tomahawk is stuffed in his belt. CUT TO: ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST - DAY MASSIVE WAR CLUB in the hand of another running man. He's heavier, older...